Day One | Day Two | Day Three | Day Four | Day FiveDay Six | Day Seven | Day Eight I realized something today. I know that I’ve just walked into a really French film when (a) I’m the only one with a smart phone or ipod in the room and (b) the median … Continue reading
New Yorkers- our next screening is for Devin’s most anticipated movie of the year, Good Luck Chuck.It all started when Charlie Logan was ten years old. Breaking the cardinal rules of spin-the-bottle, Charlie refused to lip-lock with a demented Goth girl – and she put a hex on him. Now, twenty-five years later, Charlie (Dane … Continue reading
How can a poster so well represent the movie it’s for and yet suck so badly? Oh, right…that would mean the movie’s a mess, too. I didn’t want to believe it given the oddly interesting and diverse cast paired with Richard Kelly at the helm, but the word on this flick has been nothing short … Continue reading
George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead (Fetal Page) has found a home at the Weinstein Company with theatrical distribution in the mix but based on the numbers of the deal [up to around two and a half million greenbacks] I can’t imagine the film being unleashed on 2,500 screens with a massive push. It … Continue reading
In a few hours I will be boarding a plane for the longest flight of my life, going from LAX to Heathrow. Once that 12 hour flight is over, I’ll hop on another plane that will take me to Belfast, Ireland, where I’ll be visiting the set of City of Ember, the next family movie … Continue reading
One year after Laura Ziskin presided over the blandest Oscar broadcast in my lifetime (as opposed to the most disastrous broadcast in my lifetime, which entailed Rob Lowe warbling "Proud Mary" with Snow White), producer Gil Cates is back in the saddle for the 754th time, and he’s wisely bringing back Jon Stewart, who, in … Continue reading
The following is excessively juvenile even by my standards. Whether you took David Fincher’s Fight Club as satire or generational rallying cry (FYI, there’s only one correct reading, and if you’ve at any point slugged it out with your bare-chested buds in a suburban basement to… feel… something, you read poorly), there’s no denying that … Continue reading
Paul Haggis is one of the most divisive artists of our era, and not just because of his politics. After Crash, his microcosmic examination of race relations in America, shocked many industry observers by winning the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2006 over Ang Lee’s generally favored Brokeback Mountain, Haggis has been either hailed … Continue reading
You could choose to believe that the forthcoming strike by the Screen Actors Guild is responsible for Roman Polanski backing out of the $100 million Pompeii, but that would require buying producer Robert Benmussa’s excuse that he just now discovered the June 30, 2008 work stoppage might prove problematic for the production’s August 2008 start … Continue reading
It was just a week ago that original Tron director Steven Lisberger returned from oblivion to helm a new futuristic sci-fi film called Soul Code about people downloading memories into other bodies. Apparently, the news made Disney execs remember that the property was still viable and relevant because they’ve just appointed a director for a … Continue reading